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This is a wiki page about the physicist Marie Curie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

Personal Life

Marie Curie was a Polish scientist born on November 7, 1867. She lived most of her early life in Warsaw Poland. Both of her parents were teachers so she learned to read and write at a very young age. This was uncommon for most girls at the time. She enjoyed learning and took an interest in science. She had a good memory and did very well in school. Poland was under Russian control at this time and this caused hard times for Marie and her family. Her dad lost his job and no one was supposed to read or write in Polish.

Marie worked hard to be able to attend university after she graduated high school. This was difficult to do for women in Poland in the 1800s. She found out about a university in Paris, France called the Sorbonne that she could attend. She worked for six years before she was able to move to France and start at the university. During this time she read a lot about math and physics because she wanted to be a scientist. She only took three years to earn a degree in Physics and met the love of her life Pierre while she was there. They were both scientists.

Notable contributions

Before she died because of overexposure to radiation she made a lot of important discoveries that are important to chemistry, biology, and physics today!

Discovered Elements

Polonium http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele084.html

Radium http://www.ducksters.com/science/chemistry/radium.php

Nobel Prizes

In 1903 her and Pierre Curie won a Nobel Prize in Physics for there work and discoveries with Radiation.

In 1911 she won a Noble Prize in Chemistry for discover the two Elements previously mentioned.

Other

Marie Curie was the first female to win two Nobel Prizes!

She was also the first women to be a physics professor at Sorbonne.

It was soon discovered that all of Marie Curies work with radiation could be useful in treating cancer. She then created the Radium Institute in Warsaw, Poland in 1932. After World War II the name was changed to the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology. It was an institute dedicated to cancer research and treatments options.

She also founded the Curie Institute in Paris which continues to be a major center for cancer research.

Fun Facts

Her family nick name was Manya.

She was the youngest of 5 children.

Her mother died of TB when she was young.

Her sister died of Typhus when she was young.

Marie's husband died after he was run over by a carriage in Paris.

Famous Quotes

“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.”

"Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it. Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood."

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas"

References

http://www.ducksters.com/biography/women_leaders/marie_curie.php

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/scientists/mariepierrecurie.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie